As a lawyer, I’ve been to many court buildings. The US Supreme Court, which I visited with my Antarctic friend Caroline in August, is the first to have a gift shop. Apart from teddy bears, here’s some of what it sells:
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Oct
Skeletons of notorious English kings don’t often get dug up in car parks, which is what happened in 2012, when Richard III was found in Leicester. It must have been difficult to know what to do with him. I’ve always been a bit of a fan. He wasn’t like the man in the Shakespearean play. He made…
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Oct
Dame Julie turns 81 today. Two months ago, one of the first things I did after landing in LA, meeting my friend JJ, getting a chip for my phone, bussing to our hotel and buying flip-flops (to make up for having two left-footed sandals) was to walk to Grauman’s Chinese Theatre … … to see where Julie…
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Oct
The Watergate Hotel’s website homepage wisely doesn’t have exterior photos. Otherwise, it might contain these: But the inside is imaginative and luxurious. My Antarctic friend Spencer and I had a late lunch there in August, and were sucked into the allure of the cubic fries, though I was less excited when I heard they were…
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Sep
Shakespeare’s statue in Buenos Aires shows his influence on the world … … but the North Americans take it several levels higher. I’ve previously posted about how they market Shakespearean insults … … and ‘To Be, or Not to Be’. Here are more items for sale at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC:
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Sep
Normally I come up with my own titles for my posts, but the name of this play is so original, anything on my part would be redundant. When I saw it last year in New York, it had already been running for 11 months. I didn’t blog about it because it was just so good, I couldn’t…
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Sep
The National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC doesn’t just have portraits. It also houses Katharine Hepburn’s four Oscars. When I saw them in August, she and Henry Fonda were also part of an exhibition called Hollywood and Time: Celebrity Covers. Hollywood has never been known for its kindness to ageing actresses. Bob Hope, Bing Crosby…
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Sep
In August, Lisa‘s wonderful parents Bill and Sally took me to the UCSD (University of California, San Diego) to see a travelling troupe of The Second City: the comedy organisation that helped the careers of Tina Fey and Bill Murray. Their show Free Speech (While Supplies Last) was two or so hours of sketches: some…
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Sep
